South China Morning Post Limited

This week, Hong Kong sent mainland China a stinging rejection of its authority and a brash demand for greater political freedom. Beijing barely acknowledged it.

As voters showed up in record numbers Sunday to catapult a handful of young, more radical citizens to Hong Kong’s legislature, mainland censors blocked images of election celebrations and snaking lines at the polls. No major state-controlled newspaper decried the results on its front page. Officials preoccupied themselves with the outcome of a world leaders’ summit in Hangzhou.

Few doubt Beijing is watching closely. But the relative silence highlights leaders’ fundamental conundrum when it comes to the...

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